296332 - Flash plugin freezes, prevents further navigation to domain if second MP3 is selected.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Masquith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601

Go to http://d-m-e.biz/tests/lighticon/lighticon_studios.html . Skip intro
(lower right corner) if you want. Click either Music Gallery button. When
gallery loads, click on a button for any music clip. Sound should start loading,
begin playing eventually, and possibly some text and an image loads. If you try
to click on any other clip's button, Mozilla or the Flash plugin freezes and the
audio and video galleries become non-functional. You should be able to click on
a new audio clip button at any time after 70% of the current clip has loaded
from the server. This problem also seems to "lock out" access to any other pages
in the same domain. I can't browse to anything else in the d-m-e.biz domain once
the problem happens. I can browse to other sites not in d-m-e.biz. Restarting
Mozilla allows me to browse pages on d-m-e.biz again, including the one in
question. Please note PHP is also involved. The Flash uses PHP to gather the
file names in the galleries. 
This is a problem in:
Mozilla (Windows)
Firefox (Windows)

It's not a problem in:
IE (Windows and Mac OSX)
Opera (Windows and Mac OSX)
Safari (Mac OSX)
Firefox (Mac OSX)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://d-m-e.biz/tests/lighticon/lighticon_studios.html . Skip intro
(lower right corner) if you want. 
2. Click either Music Gallery button. 
3. When gallery loads, click on a button for any music clip. Sound should start
loading, begin playing eventually, and possibly some text and an image loads. 
4. If you try to click on any other clip's button, Mozilla or the Flash plugin
freezes and the audio and video galleries become non-functional. Access to any
other pages in the same domain is blocked.

Actual Results:  
If you try to click on any other clip's button, Mozilla or the Flash plugin
freezes and the audio and video galleries become non-functional. "Locks out"
access to any other pages in the same domain.

Expected Results:  
Played the newly selected music clip.

All browsers and the Flash plugin are the latest (normal stable) versions
available as of the submission of this bug report.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This is a bug that has to do with Flash or the developers implementation of
Flash in the .swf file. This has nothing to do with Firefox. Please mark as INVALID.

Comment 2

[Michael Masquith]

This is NOT invalid!
Why does it work EVERYWHERE else except Mozilla and Firefox?
Just because it involves Flash doesn't mean you can instantly dismiss it.
It works fine in SIX other browsers. Please explain.
Thank you. 

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Same bug as bug 296285?

Comment 4

[Michael Masquith]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Same bug as bug 296285?

That's strange. I didn't enter it twice.

I would say 296285 can be deleted, as it's an exact duplicate. I thought I was 
pretty careful entering it, and don't remember clicking submit twice or anything 
similar.

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

*** Bug 296285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Michael Masquith]

Some changes to the Flash SWF got it to work on both Firefox and Mozilla. It 
makes no sense that those 2 browsers acted differently than the other 6 I 
mentioned. 

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

Either nothing in the Mozilla code itself was broken or fixed, or the specific
bug / patch that fixed this was not referenced.

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